They asked whether it sounded too stuffy and asked whether we could come up with a more exciting title.

One does not want to sound too stuffy about records belonging to great players.

It might sound damned stuffy but it's not.

You sound stuffy, and I've just mixed up a new batch.

It sounded so stuffy that I imagined people in suits and ties taking hours just to read the menu.

But in writing about himself, he sounds stuffy and self-congratulatory.

I know it sounds stuffy, but we're supposed to think about other people first.

"Miss Fellowes will do," she said, trying not to sound too stuffy about it.

'We had other things to discuss this morning,' Strand said and knew that he must sound stuffy to the man.

It sounded a little stuffy, even to me.